Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
THE Mexican government is outraged by us authorities' attempts to dump nuclear and toxic wastes in the predominantly Hispanic Texan town of Sierra Blanca. It has accused the us government of violating the 1883 La Paz agree- ment under which they had agreed tavoid activities damaging to the envi-onment or …
SCHEDULED to be held three years ago but repeatedly postponed due to the raging controversy surrounding it, the conference to debate on the possible relation between Genetics and Criminal Behaviour finally took place in the last week of September at Maryland, Washington DC. David Wasserman of University of Maryland's Institute …
THE pharmaceutical giants in the industrialised world are seriously hindering progressive research by refusiDgto share significant scientific data with the academics. They are jealously keeping information - garnered by their individual R&D; units - to themselves in a bid to prevent the rival companies from cashing in on it. For …
The bill of the nectar-drinking iiwi bird of Hawaii has become shorter by 3 per cent since the last century, conclude University of Hawaii and University of California (Berkeley) zoologists after comparing the bills of 87 fiwis collected in 1902 with those of 135 recent specimens (Discover, Vol 16, No …
The fallout of the much-debated phenomenon of global warming may not merely be a rise in temper- ature. it might result in devastating bouts of rainfall, say scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ashville, North Carolina, In a recent study. The days of "fight and moderate" rainfall …
THE US is likely to build the world's fastest supercomputer capable of carrying out 1.8 trillion calculations a second - to ensure that it never again needs to carry out underground nuclear tests. The us $46 million computer will be built for the us Department of Energy by Intel, the …
ALL over the world, thousands of hypodermic syringes are used daily in hospitals and then disposed of. But whether they are disposed of safely - given the risks of injury, and perhaps infection - it is not easy to tell. Needles which are often placed in a "sharps" box or …
Exploiting sea water for agriculture is a recent phenomenon that has gained importance in the face of rising population and dwindling water resources. Researchers screening saltwater plants from deserts and saline and alkaline soils scattered around the globe have stumbled on to a plant which is proving beneficial to humans. …
IN A recent study, scientists at the On-based Columbia University have disproved the belief that cells in multicelular organisms do not stick together in a glue-iike fashion, but where to one another in the manner of bond formed by a zip (Discover, vol W NO 9). Life on earth evolved …
I the only one who remembers the Rio Summit? Am I the Only one who remembers all the noise that American NGOSI environmentalists and internationalists were making about George Bush dillydallying on whether or not to attend the b Sageek (though, in the end he did)? Am I the only …
Calvin R Brunner is one of these writers who has his head so - in technical details that he loses sight of "m pactum While his JAmandous Waste nnimina, displays an 1&g; knowledge of the Jodkies of incinerator efolikis is not surprising hwbr bW& and opertor or ignorant of or …
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Two groups,in the US - the Pure Food Campaign and the Coalition Against Life Patents - orgardsed a protest, and picket in New York and Chicago on September, 27, The protest was to draw attention to the possible dangers presented by genetically engineered plants, seeds, fruits and vegetables. The groups …
FOR the long-suffering people of Bangladesh, India and more recently Latin America, who have to contend with frequent outbreaks of cholera, here is a message of hope from Rita Colwell, a researcher at the Maryland Universit), Washington. Her research has revealed that a major outbreak of cholera can be prevented …
A RECENT study carried in the Journal of the us National Cancer Institute in Bethesda says that migrating to a country with a high breast cancer incidence may enhance the risk of dying from the killer disease for immigrant women from traditionally low-risk countries. Enrich V Yliewer of the Australian …
A GROUP Of Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboragtory In the us have come up with a unique strategy to Pee the carbon dim (Cod gas emans from fuel-burning plants - report responsible for the global war" phenomenon - harmless. Atcordin Klaus S Lackner, the chief physich the laboratory, …
The inability to produce cheap and efficient photovoltaic cefls that convert solar energy into electricity has, till now, hamstrung solar power generation, Scientists have -xperi- mented with alternatives to silicon (used for photovoltaics) like organic polymers, which, while being cheaper and easier to process, are not effective enough. Now 2 …
The US Department of Energy is experted to endorse plans of build- ing a US $3 billion particle accelerator. The primary purpose of the accelerator will be to produce tri- tium for nuclear weapons (Nature, Vol 376, July 20, 1995). But the facility will have another spin-off. it will be …
Three independent US resm teams trying to uncover the strau adopted by the malaria parasite sneak past the immune defenses the host, have converged on I same group of genes. Russell Howard, Santa Ch biotech company and Louis Mil and Thomas Wellems, National institute of Allergy and Infectiv Diseases, showed …
The Republican Congressmen in the US continue to go hammer and tongs against all things environmental. This time it is the ozone layer. Led by representative John T Doolittle, partyman from California, they have introduced a hill to postpone until January 1, 2000, a ban on the production of chlorofluorocarbons …
